JOKERS AND ACES

ACE OF THE NOW (SPORTS, FOOTBALL AND FIFA)
The International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA) recently awarded the hosting rights of the 2018 and 2022 world cup events to Russia and Qatar respectively.
In reaching these decisions, the central executive committee of the world football body led by its president Sepp Blatter, cited the successful hosting of the event by South Africa in 2010 and the need to engender an even development of the game, as the underlying reasons for the awards.

JOKER OF THE NOW (SPORTS, FOOTBALL AND FIFA)
The brazen indifference shown by football’s governing body to suggestions bordering on the need for changes in the rules and regulations governing the game.
This is coming at the heels of many contentious decisions reached by match officials at some of the games played at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa as well the allegations of graft taking leveled against some members of Central Executive Committee, the arm of FIFA responsible for selecting hosts for the World Cup.